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| Some may consider OpenCandy an adware. In a good sense of the term, it is. It is a way to recover software development costs using advertisement. | Some may consider OpenCandy an adware. In a good sense of the term, it is. It is a way to recover software development costs using advertisement. | ||
| - | On the other hand, OpenCandy does not demonstrate the negative characteristics commonly associated with adware: | + | On the other hand, OpenCandy does not demonstrate the negative characteristics commonly associated with adware, but: |
| - | * Advertisement is only shown as a one step of software installation. Once software (WinSCP) is installed, you do not receive any more advertisements. | + | |
| - | * No unwanted software is installed. User has to explicitly choose to install promoted software to actually receive it. | + | * **Advertisement is shown only during software installation**. Once software (WinSCP) is installed, you do not receive any more advertisements. |
| - | * No private information is collected. Installation program collects only information necessary to choose relevant advertisement, such as geo-location, operating system and language. Note that this is about the same amount of information, any web page you visit receives from your web browser. Collected data is sent to ''opencandy.winscp.net''. It also downloads advertisement image from ''media.opencandy.com'' (though it does not send any information there). See [[http://www.opencandy.com/what-information-does-opencandy-collect/|more details about information being collected]]. | + | |
| + | * **No unwanted software is installed**. (WinSCP) user has absolute control over what will be installed and a software recommendation presented during the installation has to be explicitly decided upon. On the OpenCandy Software Network developers (WinSCP team) can choose concerning how they wish to recommend software, 'opt-in' or 'opt-out'. For software recommendations, 'opt-in' refers to recommendations where nothing is preselected or where the box next to //Do not install// is selected by default, while 'opt-out' refers to recommendations where //Install// is the default option. (Currently all software recommendations in WinSCP installers are 'opt-in'.) | ||
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| + | * **No private information is collected**. Installation program collects only information necessary to choose relevant advertisement, such as geo-location, operating system and language. Note that this is about the same amount of information, any web page you visit receives from your web browser. Collected data is sent to ''opencandy.winscp.net''. It also downloads advertisement image from ''media.opencandy.com'' (though it does not send any information there). See [[http://www.opencandy.com/what-information-does-opencandy-collect/|more details about information being collected]]. | ||
| For details see [[http://www.opencandy.com/privacy-policy/|OpenCandy privacy policy]]. | For details see [[http://www.opencandy.com/privacy-policy/|OpenCandy privacy policy]]. | ||